Caitlin Meyer Krause, MPH

Caitlin Meyer Krause, MPH, is a PhD Candidate in Maternal and Child Health Epidemiology at the University of Illinois Chicago. She earned her MPH in maternal and child health from the University of Arizona in 2019. Caitlin has extensive experience in both quantitative and qualitative methods on projects related to workforce development, institutional disparities, and improving maternal, infant, child, and adolescent health. Her research interests focus within reproductive and perinatal epidemiology, specifically on fetal death, infant birth outcomes, and exploring inequities in adverse pregnancy outcomes. Additional research interests include understanding the experiences of those living with an increased risk of developing or with hereditary cancer.

1. Handler A, Meyer Krause C, & Rankin K. Learning from Baseline Data to Leverage the Postpartum Medicaid Extension in Illinois. Data brief. May 9, 2024. https://ipromoteil.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Policy-Brief-on-Baseline-data-for-PP-Medicaid-Extension-final-5-10-24.pdf
2. Anderson EJ, Krause KC, Meyer Krause C, Welter A, McClelland J, Garcia DO, Ernst K, Lopez EC, & Koss MP. Web-based and mHealth interventions for intimate partner violence victimization prevention: A systematic review. Trauma, Violence, and Abuse. November 2019. doi: 10.1177/1524838019888889

• Meyer Krause C, Stoica A, Reynolds K. Training preferences of health departments’ emergency preparedness and epidemiology employees to inform public health workforce development. Oral presentation at the 2024 CityMatCH National Conference, Seattle, WA.
• Handler A, Meyer Krause C, Rankin K. Early Learnings from the Postpartum Medicaid Extension Evaluation in Illinois. Oral presentation at the 2024 CityMatCH National Conference, Seattle, WA.
• Meyer Krause C, Krause K, Campbell RK. Exploring what drives the association between maternal depression prior to pregnancy and preterm birth. Poster presentation at the 2024 Society for Epidemiologic Research National Conference, Austin, TX and the 2024 Society for Pediatric and Perinatal Epidemiologic Research National Conference, Austin, TX.
• Meyer Krause C, Rankin K, Handler A, Barshop W, Levecke M, & Floyd B. The relationship between sexual orientation and race/ethnicity and preventive health care utilization among Illinois women 21-65: Is intersectionality at play? Oral presentation at the Society for Epidemiologic Research National Conference, Austin, TX.
• Anderson E, McClelland J, Meyer Krause C, Krause K, Garcia DO, & Koss MP. Web-based and mHealth interventions for intimate partner violence prevention: A systematic review protocol. BMJ Open, 9, e029880. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029880

1. Meyer Krause C, Valentine H, Jolles D, & Gill G. (2019) Decreasing maternal child health disparities through systems redesign and shared decision making: El Rio Community Health Center. Workshop presented at the Association of Clinicians for the Underserved National Conference, Washington, D.C.